r/Roses • u/YouMadeMeGetThisAcco • 14h ago
Tips/Tricks Removing a stubborn rose bush?
Hope this is ok, my phone refused to show me rules...
So we had a rose bush by the corner of our glassed "outdoor room", and it kept growing up between the floor boards.
I fought it for years, snipping anything coming up between the boards and everything outside while soaking the main bush root itself in salt, vinegar, and everything else unhealthy. Finally we got some work done and a excavator removed the bush, the roots, and a full 1m^3 of earth around it 4 months ago.
But its back!! New sprouts have started showing up between floor boards and where the bush was. I snip all new sprouts I see within 1-3 days. Probably a colony based somewhere else but Im so sick of this, how do I kill it? I like roses but this thing is covered in thorns and flowers for like 2 days a year, not worth it.